Good research paper topics for your literature class are to write about contemporary literature, new book authors, and contemporary poetry. In new literature books, contemporary authors and poets write about history, travel, foreign places and war.

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you’ve probably already picked up the bound version of the script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J. K. Rowling’s eighth entry into the world of Potter and Hogwarts. While the print edition released with midnight bookstore parties on July 31, 2016 (the traditional release day of the Potter books, as well as Harry Potter’s birthday), the West End play, featuring Noma Dumezweni, an Olivier-winning actress of South African heritage portraying a black Hermione Granger, opened on July 30.

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That the performance and the book debuted so closely together is atypical of the way that plays are normally published, and the large following the Harry Potter world has amassed since the first novel was published in 1997 makes the newest release noteworthy. Read more

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Most likely, few people outside of the publishing industry are immediately familiar with the name Maxwell Perkins, despite the fact that he played a large hand in shaping modern American literature. In the new biopic Genius, based on the biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg, Colin Firth and Jude Law bring to life Max Perkins, editor at Scribner’s, and Thomas Wolfe, the tempestuous, verbose author whose friendship with Perkins was nearly as much the stuff of legends as Wolfe’s novels.

The sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones won’t begin until Sunday April 24, 2016, but it has already generated a lot of buzz. Entertainment Weekly featured six of the major characters on its first April issue. Even comedienne Amy Schumer used a GOT theme to publicize the debut of her next season on April 21. One reason for the anticipation is due to the featuring of strong female characters such as Arya Stark and female villains like Cersei Lannister.

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How women have been portrayed in literature through the ages is one of many compelling research paper topics. Read more

Most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco was a well-known novelist who infused his books with his interest in the field of semiotics, in which he was a scholar. He is also among the famous novelists who have died since the beginning of 2015.

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Good research paper topics for your modern literature class might include taking a look at Umberto Eco and his work, in honor of his death. You can access many essays on his work selected from peer reviewed journals by starting your research at Questia. Read more

Harper Lee has died; the author was 89. The childhood friend of Truman Capote, she established her literary reputation on the basis of a single novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Last year saw the release of an earlier draft of her famed book, entitled Go Set a Watchman.

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Casting the beloved character of Atticus Finch as a racist, many were upset by the new book. Comparing the two books is just one of many research paper topics to explore. Read more

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